MIHAELA MOSCALIUC is the author of the poetry collections Immigrant Model and Father Dirt. An associate professor at Monmouth University, she has published in the field of Romani (Gypsy) studies and is the recipient of two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, residency fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and Le Chateau de Lavigny, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania.